Monday, January 23, 2006

Republican National Committee Mail

Hat tip to fellow blogger Libby Spencer at the Detroit News for pointing me to this post from Midwestern Progressive who received a questionnaire from the Republican National Committee. Rather than sending his answers by mail, Midwestern decided to post them online. Libby's personal favorite:

"Question 8: "Should students, teachers, principals, and administrators be held to a higher standard?"

Answer: A higher standard than who? George Bush? Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby? Rummie? Rep. Cunningham? It is laughably sad that anyone would dare to talk about standards in conjunction with this bunch."

My personal favorite:
Question 6: "Do you think Congress should focus on cutting the federal budget deficit by reducing wasteful government spending?"

Answer: What deficits? I thought President Clinton turned over budget surpluses to Team Bush and that these faithful, fiscally responsible stewards of the economy would be able to continue Clinton's policies that produced the surpluses. That did not happen? Oh, well, this calls for another round of tax cuts, then! But seriously, cut wasteful government spending? Let's start with Bush's pharma giveaways failed senior drug prescription policy and other corporate welfare programs that flourish under this administration's "leadership.

Midwestern has other great responses. Check them out for yourself, especially question #19 and his suggestion on where you might consider sending a contribution in lieu of the RNC.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for the link!

Between you and Libby, this post is generating a fair amount of traffic.

One commenter even called me out for a typo in "Mississippi."

Anonymous said...

Gotta love spam. The best one I've ever received is an an invitation to join the "American Hunters and Shooters Association." I couldn't resist posting a response either.

You'd think these idiots would do a bit of research. But apparently it's cheaper to annoy people.

Besides, they get free advertising from us bloggers who rant about how annoyed we are. Damn, I never looked at it that way...